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Quality-of-Life Assessment in Neuropsychology

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The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Assessment and Basic Competencies

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The term quality of life has enjoyed colloquial use in several human service and health-related fields for some time, although its use as a scientific concept is relatively recent. The biomedical fields have shown a recent upsurge of interest in quality of life and psychosocial factors in general. A major conceptual impetus to the scientific application of psychosocial concepts in health care was provided by George Engel’s (1980) paper on the biopsychosocial model of medicine. Using a systems theory framework, Engel argued that the inclusion of psychosocial information in the formulation of medical concepts, in research, and in patient care serves to make medicine a more scientific enterprise when compared to more narrow biomedical models or with nonscientific “holistic” models. Engel’s viewpoint has been widely embraced by medical schools, and a new generation of physicians and medical investigators are being trained in the biopsychosocial model.

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  1. New Medico Rehabilitation and Skilled, Nursing Center of Troy, Troy, New York, USA

    David E. Tupper (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor) (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA

    David E. Tupper (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor) (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor)

  3. The Center for Head Injuries, Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Edison, New Jersey, USA

    Keith D. Cicerone (Clinical Director) (Clinical Director)

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McSweeny, A.J. (1990). Quality-of-Life Assessment in Neuropsychology. In: Tupper, D.E., Cicerone, K.D. (eds) The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Assessment and Basic Competencies. Foundations of Neuropsychology, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1503-2_8

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